International Lawrence Durrell Society

Critical Materials on Lawrence Durrell:
A Bibliographic Checklist

Last Updated: 23 January 2007

This is a constantly updated project
to collect a bibliography on Lawrence Durrell in order to aid scholars in
locating materials. The primary focus of this work is to make a checklist
available of critical materials concerning Lawrence Durrell's works; however, a
list of rarer works by Durrell, initial publication of his major work, review
articles, and Durrell's own critical publications are included. While I hope
this will aid research, these areas have not yet
been covered in as much detail as critical materials. I have not retained the
numbering from previous bibliographies and have avoided enumeration completely;
this is a future project for updates and revisions.

UPDATES:Only the .pdf files for the full bibliography (alphabetical
or chronological) are updated regularly. The pre-sorted lists in the
column to the left have not been updated since September 2004. For researchers who need more frequent
updates and better search options, a RIS formatted text file of the complete
bibliography is also available (updated 23 January 2007). This will import into most
bibliographic software, such as RefWorks, ProCite, EndNote, and so forth.

Annotations are
currently at a minumum, but will develop in the future. Eventually, materials
will be searchable via a database, but until then large divisions have been made
between categories based on the focus of different critical works (See
navigation bar to the right). This checklist has focused
its energies on criticism, and researchers should still use the other major
bibliographies, especially if they are looking for annotations, review articles,
newspaper publications, and articles in a language other than English. These
are, again, future projects to be undertaken more comprehensively once the
current form of the bibliography is complete. I have also excluded materials for
which I currently have only a partial reference and have not been able to
examine a copy to obtain a full record. Such items will be added and updated as
the records are acquired.

I would like to extend thanks to those who
have been particularly helpful in this enterprise, and especially all earlier
bibliographers whose efforts made this project possible. The Koger-MacNiven
Bibliography has been particularly useful, and Susan MacNiven's encouragement
has been greatly appreciated. Other major bibliographers include Cecil L.
Peaden, Susan Vander Closter, James Brigham, and Alan G. Thomas.

If you
notice errors in items or citations, or if you would like to suggest additions,
please contact the author of this work, James Gifford gifford@fdu.edu.